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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag Sun Dec 01, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
In a bizarre ruling, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has fined the tiny town of Emo and its mayor $15,000 for failing to fly a Pride flag ? on a flagpole that doesn't exist.
The post Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Police Failing to Solve Three in Every Four Domestic Burglaries Sun Dec 01, 2024 17:02 | Richard Eldred
A national crisis is unfolding as police in England and Wales fail to solve three in four domestic burglaries, leaving nearly 32,000 victims stranded without justice in just three months
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offsite link Fear of Offence is Eroding Free Speech and Fuelling Modern Blasphemy Laws, Says Kathleen Stock Sun Dec 01, 2024 15:02 | Richard Eldred
Blasphemy laws are a dangerous road to walk down, as religious offence should never trump the vital need for free speech, no matter who gets upset, warns Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
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offsite link Is Elon Musk About to Give Nigel Farage $100 Million to Make Him Next PM? Sun Dec 01, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Elon Musk is rumored to back Nigel Farage?s Reform Party with a $100 million "F*** you, Starmer" play to shake up UK politics and elevate Farage to Downing Street.
The post Is Elon Musk About to Give Nigel Farage $100 Million to Make Him Next PM? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?If We Want to Reverse Global Warming We?re Going to Have to Be a Bit More Queer? Sun Dec 01, 2024 11:00 | Steven Tucker
"If we want to reverse global warming we're going to have to be a bit more queer." Chad Frischmann is a 'queer climate expert' convinced that gays have a "superpower" to solve climate change. Steven Tucker is sceptical.
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international / environment Thursday March 10, 2011 - 09:49 by Prison Solidarity
On Thursday, a jury in Salt Lake City declared climate activist Tim DeChristopher guilty for his interference with an oil and gas auction held at the end of the Bush administration. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years, to be determined by a judge:
YOUTUBE (3 mins) Speech by Tim DeChristopher after guilty verdit delivered.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cae5Pr7CHgk&feature=play...at=10 ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday March 05, 2011 - 17:49 by Red Banner
Issue 43 of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
Out now from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 04, 2011 - 05:42 by Ciarn   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 05, 2011 - 06:35)
Full View
12-min TV program on Bradley Manning EXCELLENT! ... and usable
(thanx Ray!)
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/media/panor165.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 27, 2011 - 10:29 by AC   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 27, 2011 - 18:45)
international / environment Sunday February 27, 2011 - 00:39 by Ragerman   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 06, 2011 - 20:20)
An open letter appeared on the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance founded and run by Judith McGeary to save family farms in the US. The letter, written by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, warns of a pathogen “new to science” discovered by “a team of senior plant and animal scientists”. Huber says it should be treated as an “emergency’’, as it could result in “a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies.”
This could be the worst nightmare of genetic engineering that some scientists have been warning for years:
the unintended creation of new pathogens through assisted horizontal gene transfer and recombination. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 26, 2011 - 02:36 by J. C. Phelan
Something funky is going on with our water. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 25, 2011 - 19:23 by Moshé Machover
Moshé Machover writes on the Wikileaks revalations, the emerging Arab revolutions and his fears that Israel could launch an attack on Iran. Full article at link.

For nearly 50 years I have been talking and writing about the prospect of an Arab revolution and only last year I said that, while I am confident this is going to happen, “don’t hold your breath”. What has been taking place has been a nice dress rehearsal, but we can see that the Arab revolution is not such a distant prospect. It is difficult to exaggerate its significance - not only for the region, but also for the whole world and for human history.

It is against this background that I would like to discuss the Wikileaks revelations. One whole section of Wikileaks has to do with the Middle East, and specifically with Israel and Iran ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Friday February 25, 2011 - 12:31 by Andrew   text 13 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2011 - 20:43)   image 4 images   video 1 video file   1 attached file
Today, in an even more meaningless exercise then normal, a minority of the population of Ireland will choose between two almost identical options as to who will implement the ECB / IMF austerity plans for southern Ireland. Outside of this plan the wealthiest 1% will continue to set economic policy tomorrow as they did yesterday and have throughout the last decades. The electoral circus we are now going through provides the rest of us with the illusion of control even though deep down almost everyone acknowledges the ritual as having no real impact on what policies are actually implemented. ... read full story / add a comment
 Eamon Gilmore - Once a prominent "Official" Republican
national / politics / elections Wednesday February 23, 2011 - 00:07 by Paul Larkin   text 10 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2011 - 23:01)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
During the election campaign, the media has singularly failed to put the hard questions to former members of the Workers Party ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 21, 2011 - 15:06 by Ruben Markarian   text 4 comments (last - monday february 21, 2011 - 19:50)   video 6 video files
Ruben Markarian of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran addressed the Hopi AGM in London on 12 February 2011. Here is an extract from his speech. The full text is at the url.

Before discussing recent political events in Iran, please allow me to commemorate a very significant event in modern Iranian history - the Siahkhal uprising, which took place 40 years ago. This event produced the Fedayeen movement after two decades of stagnation and reformism on the left. The Fedayeen initiated armed struggle against the shah’s regime. In so doing they revived the Iranian left and turned it into the main force in the struggle against the shah and against imperialism in Iran. We should commemorate our fallen comrades and their memory - they died for socialism and freedom and passed on militant traditions to the next generation of Iranians. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Saturday February 19, 2011 - 22:31 by Anonymous   image 5 images
The past World Week for the Abolition of Meat from 22 to 29 January 2011 - the very first WWAM of the year - was a success. Varied events (such as street actions, silent demonstrations, "human" meat tray actions, protest marches...) were organized in over 70 towns and cities, mainly in Europe, but also in South Africa, in both Americas, in India as well as in Japan (here's the list). These events were largely covered in the media.

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national / anti-capitalism Saturday February 19, 2011 - 16:47 by McDorcha   text 1 comment (last - friday february 18, 2011 - 17:28)
"A man who once stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness was last night behind bars in Maghaberry Prison after being convicted for an attempted murder 30 years ago.

Gerry McGeough is the first republican to be jailed for historical crimes since the Good Friday Agreement. He was yesterday convicted of attempting to murder UDR member Sammy Brush in 1981 and of IRA membership in 1975."

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/n...EjbhH
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 19, 2011 - 11:45 by Joe   text 18 comments (last - sunday november 13, 2011 - 17:14)   video 1 video file

Mike Head on the wave of uprisings in the Middle-East and North Africa and the barbaric response from western- backed dictatorships. . Troops loyal to the Bahrain royal family have been using live ammunition against protestors resulting in many deaths . The article suggests that America , whose Fifth Fleet is based in the oil-rich state of Bahrain ,is acting in close collaboration with the royal regime .

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 18, 2011 - 13:52 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on the spread of demonstrations to Iran, inspired by the Egyptian Revolution. Full text at link.

Amongst the many protests in Egypt and Tunisia not only were there no signs of support for the Islamic Republic, but protestors in Tahrir Square called on Iranians to follow their example and continue their protests for democracy. Indeed every time Iran’s rulers tried to imply that Arab protestors were following in the traditions of the revolution led by ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, secular and religious protestors united to denounce such comparisons. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 17, 2011 - 18:54 by worker
The struggle spreads to Iran. The workers will topple the Dictatorship. This is by Hamid Azar, from ‘Offensiv’, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

The 25 Bahman (14 February) was a day of revolt in Iran. Hundreds of thousands protested in Tehran and in other cities. They shouted, "Down with dictatorship!" and "After Ben Ali, now Sayed Ali [Khamenei]!"

Almost 50,000 people responded to a call on Facebook to support the protests. The official opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mirhossein Mousavi, in a letter to the Minister of Interior sent earlier sought approval for a demonstration in support of the revolution in Egypt.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 12, 2011 - 18:33 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 20, 2011 - 21:48)
Seven writers give their analyses of the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions and warn of the dangers ahead. Full texts at links.

The Emerging Counter-Revolutions In Tunisia And Egypt
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

An arrogant pharaoh has fallen. Egyptians may be chanting that their country is free, but their struggle is far from over. The United Arab Republic of Egypt is not free yet. The old regime and its apparatus are still very much in place and waiting for the dust to settle. The Egyptian military is officially in control of Egypt and the counter-revolution is emerging. A new phase of the struggle for liberty has started.
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazemroaya120211.htm ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 09, 2011 - 15:21 by Kev   image 1 image
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign Statement – first published 3rd February 2011

The geo-political status quo of the Middle East is undergoing a dramatic shake-up as the Arab peoples take to the streets to demand their democratic rights in popular uprisings. Mass mobilisations have seen the downfall of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia, while the fate of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency in Egypt remains uncertain as protestors refuse to leave the streets, and smaller scale protests have been taking place in Yemen[1], Algeria[2] and Jordan[3]. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 06, 2011 - 18:51 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday february 07, 2011 - 15:05)
Awal Gul has finally left Guantánamo - in a coffin. Full text at link.

On Thursday the Pentagon announced that Awal Gul, a 48-year old Afghan prisoner, who had been held for nine years without charge or trial and was scheduled to be held forever, died in a shower after suffering a heart attack. Gul had never been held as a prisoner of war, and despite the US government’s assertions that he could be held forever, no one in a position of authority — neither President Bush nor President Obama — had ever adequately demonstrated that he constituted a threat to the United States. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media Sunday February 06, 2011 - 18:50 by Darren Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - monday february 07, 2011 - 15:20)   image 2 images
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